Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

2024 was just declared the hottest on record, supplanting 2023 as the previous record holder. Our planet is clearly warming. But like most climate-related phenomena, impacts vary based on geography.

It sounds dramatic to imagine one half of Earth slowly losing its internal warmth faster than the other, but that is the general direction many researchers are now exploring. When geophysicists looked ...